Tri-City Ledger -

What is our price limit for safety?

March 29, 2018

'You can't put a price on safety'. We've heard that statement many, many times. To some extent it's true, in other times it's not.

We applaud the Town of Flomaton and the Escambia County School Board working out an agreement where the town will pay to have an additional resource officer on the Flomaton schools' campus for the remainder of this school year. Whether or not that resource officer will be on campus next year is still in negotiations.

When you get right down to it, there is a price put on safety. The problem comes with how much money are the taxpayers willing to pay for that safe...